Comments on: Rat’s Nest – Half-Life 2: Ep2

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:34:18 +0000

I too have trouble with the game crashing when in the boat and after reading all the above I wont bother to finish it. Up till this point I was not that impressed any way, design was very basic with questionable scale in places, the magnet was ok but hardy original, the only point I enjoyed was throwing truck wheels at the Combine using the gravity gun, went back and did that sequence again just for the hell of it, see how many Combine you can roll over with one wheel.

By: SolidFake

SolidFake — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:48:48 +0000

idea good – realisation bad
that’s all to say, cran part was funny but also very very annoying as my crane got stuck each fifth second.
The boat part was not that good, the boat pushed me away from the cannon
The text was far too much and too fast.
But mapping was good any everything looked really nice

By: C:14585 » Podcast 17

C:14585 » Podcast 17 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:20:26 +0000

[...] Rat’s Nest (HL2:Ep2) [...]

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:07:53 +0000

Here they are:
/files/misc/rats-nest-saves.rar

I had to replay the level because there are two times you need to sue the crane and I only had one point saved.

I added two other saves. One to show you how easy the last part before you level the area can be and the second just after the boat starts in case you had the same issue as andyb.

I have to say that all the times I played it from my last save the boat got stuck and I dide, unless I jumped out of the boat.

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Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:44:47 +0000

[...] Rat’s Nest (EP2) [...]

By: J-Man

J-Man — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:16:14 +0000

This MOD is definitely not for me. ( too boring )

By: civanT

civanT — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:32:53 +0000

I like maps without combat, but this one is an exception I think, while this map is well designed and quite different from others, still it wasn’t fun. I can’t have fun without a good story, so this was it. Action lovers will enjoy this probably.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:30:01 +0000

Yes Please!

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:07:33 +0000

Would you like me to send you my saves?

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:05:35 +0000

Actually Mike would you like me to send you a save just after the boat ride starts?

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:34:10 +0000

What spoilt it for me was the unpredictable behaviour of the crane and the things on the crane, the author made a comment about this, and how it was unfixable, but on the whole the mod is playable.
Agree about too much text, I find concentrating on more than a couple of lines of text means that I have to play through a few times to fully understand what the hell is going on,
And the boat ride at the end needs no player input, just keep your head down, even when I could fire the rocket launcher I couldn’t actually hit anything.
It’s like the author got bored and just wanted to finish as quickly as he could.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:30:03 +0000

That doesn’t work. must be something in my setup?
Thanks, Brian.

By: MikeS

MikeS — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:54:00 +0000

Brian, you have to turn away from the console (face the doors behind you) and press the ‘use’ key.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:45:45 +0000

No that doesn’t work for me. It works to start using the crane but not to stop, I’m stuck there and can’t follow the girl.

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:53:47 +0000

Use the “use” key. I think that should work.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:57:04 +0000

Can’t seem to release my self from the crane. Noclip doesn’t work either. Great Ideas in some of these lately. I know these guys are doing these for their school projects, but I can’t help but feel that we could repay them in some small way. Maybe some sort of contest with us donating a small pot of cash and voting for the winner.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:50:23 +0000

Very innovative. Very good indeed. At my 6th attempt I finally got the containers in the right positions. This take a bit of working out but makes for a goodly challenge – very satisfying.
Both great and interesting

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:40:23 +0000

To be honest the last part is just a ride anyway.

By: MikeS

MikeS — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:15:41 +0000

I’ve made five attempts now to board the boat but it’s crashed every time. I won’t be trying again. Shame, because I was quite enjoying it.

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:44:35 +0000

The .vmf file doesn’t go anywhere. It’s the map’s source if mappers want to look at the construction. It crashed on me once too at that point.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:18:58 +0000

It was certainly interesting! The crane interface was a little clunky, and I think a few of those containers were made out of rubber… but certainly an innovative idea executed well. The missiles at the end however just went their own way, and when the boat turned, it sometimes yanked me off the mounted weapon. If you like non-combat puzzles, you’ll love this map. Otherwise…..

By: MikeS

MikeS — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:23:10 +0000

Can anybody tell me where the .vmf file goes? The map keeps crashing on me when I get in the rebel’s boat.

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:21:42 +0000

The amount of combat is almost non-existant, especially if you position the items in the main warehouse carefully But that’s not the point of the map!

What I liked about it was the crane use and the fact it only had the Gravity Gun.

For me the Hall Of Fame is a way of saying “play this because it’s either great or interesitng”. In this case it’s interesting.

There’s way too much text on the screen and I missed some of it, don’t really understand why it can’t have voice acting and before you say because of the lip sync I’d rather have voice acting with no sync then text!

The last section requires you to ride the boat and fire. I honbestly don’t think I hit anything, so maybe I’ll play the last part again.

5 Words Or Less Review
Cranes can be fun!